Ability to update a place from the create page without having to load into it

[GregTame]

As a Roblox developer, it is currently too hard to update multiple places that rely on packages for their content.

Hiya, I’m GregTame. creator of Steam and Steel.
Steam and Steel is a train tycoon game that uses maps that are 4 square miles of smooth terrain. so each map uses about 2gb of ram to load in studio.

We have a lot of maps.

Since all the asset and game engine is the same between maps. I do all my coding on the test map, and the use packages. all the packages in the actual maps are all set to auto update.

there is one major problem though. how do i push the actual update to users?

Well right now the only way I can do this is to open each place, press update, and close it.
but each map being so massive. loading a map takes between 40 and 90 seconds. so that means currently updating any change takes about 5 minutes, and has to be done entirely manually.

A simple button on the create page, under the place called “push update” or something would greatly speed up this process.
because as games like steam and steel get bigger, this problem gets worse and worse for me, in a way that make packages not worth it.

[cloakedyoshi]

Chiming in as the extreme example:

@GregTame

as games like steam and steel get bigger, this problem gets worse and worse for me, in a way that make packages not worth it

Updating my games such as TDTNTOR 2 or TDTNTOR 3 (with ~30 places within) take 20-40 minutes, even when the core package for each is identical. This doesn’t sound too bad if I’m releasing a large update every few months, but the kicker is this update issue applies for ANYTHING - including small patches and bug fixes.

The overall issue for me is less about the size of the place files and more about the quantity. Either way, having this feature would be a godsend.

[funwolf7]

This is a massive pain point of universes and should certainly be added.

In the meantime, try using a script like this:

Publishing all places of a universe after package mass-update

CONTEXT Packages have an “Update all” feature that enables you to update all occurrences of this package within places of a universe. Yet, the places are only saved and not published, meaning you have to open every places in Roblox Studio and publish manually. This can be very time-consuming if your game has many places. An “AutoPublish” feature was already requested there and there, but with no response so far. Thankfully, Roblox recently introduced the Open Cloud with which you can publish p…

It pulls the latest version of the place (unfortunately, this has to be done using a security token) and then publishes it using the open cloud api.

Edit: after posting this I realized that I can probably make a script using Lune that wouldn’t require copying your security token into a script. I might try and do this later.

[GregTame]

So I’ve tried this recently, and I’ve found that it simply does not work.

Apparently, packages do not update until you actually load the file in studio.

and it’s the fact that I have the load each and every place file in studio, it’s like… i might as well hit alt+p and publish since I’m already having to load it